Woven chenille fabric.



N0. 685,60I. Patented Oct-29, |901.

H. HARDWICK.

-WDVEN CHENILLE FABRIC.

(Application filed Apr. 20. 1897.) (No Model) 5 TEUNrrED STATES PATENT QEEICE;

HARRY HARDWIOK, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNsYLvANIA.

WOVEN CHENILLE FABRIC;

sPEcrFrcArroN forming para of Leteersratent 'Na 685,601, dats otoier 29, 1901; Application filed April 20, 1897. Serial No. 632,950. (No specimcnal To all whom it mag/0075067171,.-

Be it known that I, HARRY HARDWICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Im provementin Woven Chenille Fabrics, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this speciiication.

Myinvention relates to the class of fabrics in which chenille is used for the weft; and it consists in a novel combination of such weft with binder and stuffer warp to produce novel effects and construction.

My invention has for one of its objects to cure this defect. Chenille has great elasticity and can be compressed into a small compass. It can also expand and cover a considerable surface.

My invention, speaking generally, consists in a twoply fabric using chenille-weft and binder-warp for the weft an'd between the plies having a heavy or stuer warp,in which, in part or in whole throughout the fabric, one weft-thread of a repeat appears upon one face and the remaining weft-threads of the repeat upon the back, one of the binderwarps in such construction passing from front to back and appearing on the face of the two plies and the other binding-warp lying between the plies and on the face of one ply. With such construction as this the stuifer-warp lying between the two plies pre-V vents the chenille on either ply from showing through to the opposite ply or face. Moreover, on that ply where the single thread is shown it being under but slight compression, if any, will expand and practically cover the space occupied by the other threads of the repeat in the same ply, which are under a considerable compression and are compressed into a small space. By this construction I am enabled to get any number of solid chenille colored effects upon the face by merely putting upon the face one of the chenille-wefts of a repeat and repeating such position of the threads of a repeat for two or three repeats, thus getting the solid color effect. Moreover, I can by having a number of chenille-weite in the repeat in addition to this solid color effect obtain a number of party-color ede-cts. It may thus be seen that;

broadly considered, my invention consists ina fabric having chenille-wefts in two plies and an interposed stutter-warp in which one weft of a repeat is upon one face and the r'e' maining wefts on the other face or ply. l In'the drawing accompanying this specification-I have shown a section of myimproved fabric along a series of warps. The wefts are denoted R', W2, O3, and B4, the letters denoting the colors of the threads--R, red; W, white; O, olive, and B black-and the numerals denoting the order of throw. The binder-warp threads are denoted by a and b, and the stuer-warps by c and d. I have divided this fabric into twenty parts, denoted from 5 to 2l. In parts 5 and 6 the Wefts, olive and white, lie in the upper ply and the other two'wefts, black and red, lie in the lower ply of the fabric. The warp-thread a passes over alternate threads of the upper ply and under alternate threads of the lower ply, while the warp-thread b passes under the other alternate threads of the lower ply and over the other alternate threads of the upper ply. The stuffer-Warps c and CZ, lie between the two plies of the fabric. In parts 7 and 8 one rweft-thread (the black thread of the four weft-threads) lies in the upper ply, While the remaining three weft-threads (the olive, red, and white) lie in thel ower ply. The warp-thread ot passes over the bla-ck thread in the upper ply and under the red and white threads of the lower ply, while the warpthread b passes under the olive thread of the lower ply and over the red and white threads of the same ply. In parts 9 and 10 the arrangement of the warp-threads is the same as in the preceding parts 7 and 8, there being, however,a dilference in the weft-thread, in that in parts 9 and 10 the olive weft-thread is in the upper ply, while the black, white, and red weft-threads are in the lower ply. In parts 11 and `12 the red weft-thread'is in the upper ply, while the white, black, and olive weft-threads are in the lower ply. The warp-thread b passes under the black and olive weft-threads of the lower ply and over the red weft of the upper ply, while the warpthread ct passes over the black and olive weftthreads of the lower ply and under the white thread of that ply. In parts 13 and 14 the IOO arrangement of warps is the same as in the parts l1 and 12, the only difference being that the white weft-thread is in the upper ply and the red, black, and olivegin the lower ply. In parts 15 to 24: the arrangement of warps is similar to the corresponding parts 5 to 14E, the dierence being simply that the Warp and weft threads are inverted in parts to 24 over what they were in 5 to 14. Throughoutthis whole construction the stuffer-warps c and CZ remain between the two plies of the fabric, holding the chenille-weft of each ply upon its corresponding ply or face and preventing an admixture of the two pliesl this arrangement from sections 7 to 14 I obtain a series of solid color effects, the first being a solid black effect, the second an olive effect, the third a solid red effect, and the fourth a solid white effect. In the parts 17 to 24 I obtain a series of partycolored elfects, due to bringing up three chenille wefts of the repeat upon the face and bringing only one to the back, the stuifer-warp, as before, remaining between the two plies.

I do not intend to limit myself to a condition wherein there are four chenille-wefts in a repeat, as my invention may be carried out esaeoi where there are three or more wefts in a rel peat; nor do I intend to limit myself to the precise number of binder-warp or stuffer-y warp, my invention being the interposition between the plies of a chenille fabric of stuffer-warp, and, further, with such construction the arrangement of the repeats so' that one weft of the repeat shall be in one face and the remaining weft of a repeat in the other face or ply of the fabric.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

A two-ply ingrain chenille fabric comprising weft-s in sets of three or more, in which one chenille-weft of the repeat is, in one ply and the remaining Wefts in the other ply, binder-warp which bind the threads, one of which passes from face to back, binding the two plies together, and an interposed stuilcr warp between the plies.

In testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hand.

HARRY HARDVICK.

Vitnesses:

CAROL I-I. DEsHoNG, M. F. ELLIS. 

